No Matter What You Call It, It’s Still Ethnic Cleansing
The Gaza Strip, refuge for nearly 1.7-million Palestinians, will be uninhabitable by 2020. “Action needs to be taken now if Gaza is to be a liveable place in 2020 and…
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On Israel and Apartheid
Message on a wall at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Last month, university students and activists around the world marked Israeli Apartheid Week, an annual series of lectures and…
Why Thomas Mulcair gets it when it comes to Israel
Not surprisingly, Thomas Mulcair won the NDP leadership last month, replacing Saint Jack Layton as the man social democrats hope can rally left-of-centre voters to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s…
Emotionally devastating documentary explores Israeli bombing of Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Tears of Gaza
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Israel’s latest bombing campaign of Gaza, while the Israeli military stubbornly insists the child-killing attacks are necessary to stop “terrorism”. Such…
Politics, Re-Spun on The Rational on Co-op Radio, March 12 Lineup
Politics, Re-Spun is on The Rational on Coop Radio on Monday, March 12, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm with an intriguing lineup! Listen live online or at 102.7fm in the…
Pushing the Envelope on Palestinian Sovereignty
There has not been much movement of late on the Israeli-Palestinian front. This may partly be explained by the relative lack of violent activity by Palestinian groups. The conflict has…
Tarzan and Arab: twin Gaza filmmakers without a cinema
What do you do if you live in Gaza, have a passion for cinema, but all the theatres have been bombed out? Not only is making movies virtually impossible, the…
Something John Baird should actually get grumpy about
Canadians face two months of incarceration in Israel without trial On Tuesday, Freedom Waves to Gaza activists detained in Israel -- including Canadians David Heap and Ehab Lotayef -- came…
Canadian Boats Seized by Israel
Gaza situation is one of the worst injustices in the world. Why Harper and other western leaders are not speaking out. They were fast to intervene in case of Libya.…
Gates slams Netanyahu: Israel ‘ungrateful’, not serious about peace
Gates and Netanyahu in happier timesIn a surprising column by Iraq war booster Jeffrey Goldberg, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates slams Israel, saying it is not serious about peace…
Turkey’s Snub & The Decline of Israel
Israeli blunder: Turkish ship Mavi Marmara as it's being attacked by Israeli commandos during attempt by flotilla to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip. It was just over 20 years…
Tony Benn to BBC "If you wont broadcast the Gaza appeal then I will myself"
BBC meets its match. Liberal media my ass. Hey Tony, why not visit the CBC and kick some ass here, too?H/T: @EverettColdwell
The art of ‘pakour’ in Gaza – Overcoming obstacles in Kan Younis refugee camp
‘Pakour’, or FreeRunning, is the acrobatic art of running through cities and overcoming obstacles on the fly — or like a fly, because sometimes it seems like traceurs (slang for…
The art of ‘pakour’ in Gaza – Overcoming obstacles in Kan Younis refugee camp
‘Pakour’, or FreeRunning, is the acrobatic art of running through cities and overcoming obstacles on the fly — or like a fly, because sometimes it seems like traceurs (slang for…
"Anti-Semitism" Committee A Rearguard Defence Of Israel’s Crimes
It's nothing new really - the right wing, who can barely make their lips form the words "anti-racism", spend boatloads of cash to "take a stand" against anti-Semitism. Except that…
What would questioning disguised pacifists accomplish anyway? The Gaza flotilla’s mission is a humanitarian mission first and foremost
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr.…
Cancel your concerts in Israel – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Island
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan's Island.
Stephen Harper’s moral relativism
In Stephen Harper's speech to the recent Conservative convention, referring to foreign policy, he announced that the Conservatives moral stance would be clear. "Moral ambiguity, moral equivalence are not options,"…
Israel Is No Different Than Syria
Israel likes to tout itself as the "plucky little democracy" in the Middle East, and as an island of European-style democracy besieged by a sea of dictatorships and dark, Arabic…
The Crisis In Gaza — An International Tipping Point
If, and as long as between the Jordan and the sea, there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic… If the…